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The father of a disabled boy brought to a Conservative news conference
to criticize the Liberals' child-care plan, and to defend a parent's
right to choose what is best for their child, boasted on a newspaper
website of having found a legal loophole that lets him sell marijuana
to the sick - something that contravenes the law. Mark-Alan Whittle,
who appeared yesterday beside Tory MP Rona Ambrose, bills himself the
chief executive of Logan's Pony Club which he said was set up last
summer for the sole purpose of selling marijuana. Whittle joined
Ambrose, the Tory child-care critic, at a Parliament Hill news
conference to respond to comments by high-ranking Liberals - including
the prime minister's director of communications, Scott Reid - that
there is nothing in the Conservative child-care plan - which offers
some parents a $1,200-annual allowance - to ensure it is not spent on
"beer and popcorn."